Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-06
NEW INDUSTRY FOR WOMEN.
Sending Daintily Served Meals to Faml-
lies Who DO Light Housekeeping.

hes VINO DO Light housekeeping.
A new industry for women is beginning
TO evolve itself in New York, which may
yet do much toward solving the vexed
servant girl question. Some three months
ago n woman of good old New York
family, educated and capable left widow
without money and having served no APP
premiership to any of the industries by
which women earn bread and butter, be-
gan to think of putting her pride in her
pocket and turning her notable housekeep-
ing talents to account by looking for SER
vice in a family as cook.
Considering the matter further, it oc-
CURED to her that she could do no better.
Securing with some little effort, the pro-
ject being novel one, a clientage of half
n dozen families in her immediate neigh
borhood that were groaning under dys-
pepsia, induced by eight housekeeping,
she began TO send out, three times day,
delicately cooked and daintily served
meals. Her venture was SO Immediately
successful that she looked up New Eng
land housekeeper and couple of stout
armed Swedish girls TO help her, and her
business sprang, almost in n single night,
to the utmost dimensions that she could
handle. Families that had tried the friz-
zled steaks broiled by the green girl, FAM
i1SS llltO were Surviving OH IicilS eldDOTu-
ted over the fiickerng gas jet, families
that had eaten table board'' in the base
ment dining room around the corner,
families whose pocketbooks groaned at the
expense of the waiter load sent in from
hotel or restaurant, families whose heads
were business women without time for
cooking, families tired of the annoyance
of servants in q small fiat were glad to
be supplied with honest home cooking,
varied, palatable, and at reasonable
price.
She has twenty-one families on her list
at present, ] think TO whom she supplies
just that wholesome round of breakfasts,
lunches and dinners that the average
house mother would offer to husband and
little folks. Fruit in season, in the morn
ing, oatmeal or wheaton grits, fish, steak
or chops; side dish, such as stewed kid
ncys, sausage, liver and bacon, eggs, cof-
fee, tea or chocolate, bread and butter,
milk and sugar. Soup, fish, n roast three
vegetables, dessert and coffee make up the
dinner, all of which is sent out at cost
of 81 Il week to u single person, So each
for members of families, though as what
is supplied for two is sufficient for three,
the cost per household is not reckoned In
multiples of that sum. In a way the ex-
pertinent is'one of cooperative housekeep-
ing, for, practically, the cost of everyday
living is divided among a number of fami-
lies, purchases for all being made to-
gether, the labor for all systematized and
simpliiied, and the waste of all minimzed,
the result being that each family saves
nearly the full amount of its cooks wages,
and is freed from the tyranny of Castle
Garden besides.
Two other women, emulous of the first,
talk Of starting similar enterprises. The
scheme is in its infancy, but whenever
sufficient number of families within ra-
dius of n block or two as near the great
fiat houses can be interested in ii, 1t has
promise of an opening for an industry for
women and of relief from divers perplexi.
ties for tie families they serve.--Eliza
Putnam Heaton ia Brooklyn Times.